Can we give some love to the unsung/underrated MEN of the 60s/70s?

"where are the legions of norman blake fans? i love a lot of those sixties/seventies bluegrass guys."

95% of the rounder, fretless, and flying fish catalogs go unlistened to by anyone under 50.

but it's a slippery slope -- when is someone going to come in here and start repping hardcore for early billy joel? 3 ... 2 ... 1?
― tylerw, Wednesday, June 8, 2011 9:04 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M-_FFNYeR4

boom!

this Denver record is pretty tight.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S19QYk9pL._SS500_.jpg

i've never listened to kenny rankin. my mom has the "after the roses" record at home but it looked shitty.

after listening to a few songs this one sounds pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzXTUk4TfSg

michael franks is a great example of this. i wouldn't have gotten into him if it weren't for skot's praises

i gotta listen to more of this dude's horse rock cuz i just know there is some poco-esque goodness in there somwhere

http://image.kazaa.com/images/15/602498628515/Michael_Martin_Murphey/Geronimos_Cadillac/Michael_Martin_Murphey_comp_Ray_Lewis-Ge_3.jpg

al stewart, gerry rafferty, and gary wright all had nice non-hit stuff that nobody listens to anymore. maybe beardo balearic people do though...

Some love for "The Owl" and "City to City"!

Paul Siebel gets played a lot in my house and that Jerry Jeff alum posted above is my favorite of his. I don't know why Steve Young isn't more popular?

i love jimmy spheeris, and shawn phillips, dion's 70s singer songwriter albums (!), jake holmes (maybe he is loved?), ben sidran, cyrus faryar is my fucking dog, dogs, jerry corbit, kevin coyne, paul parrish, tim hardin

so into bernie leadon from the eagles lately. that album he did w/ Michael Georgiades is fucking fantastic.

Who is reissuing Ian Matthews? And those first two JD Souther albums are nice, Rick Roberts too. and this guy I love
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/2065/davidwiffen.jpg

so whaddaya think is the tipping point for these artists to become "hip"? does will oldham need to come out as a Steve Young fan? does light in the attic need to reissue some john denver?

Anyone ever heard the Steve Noonan album on Elektra? From '67 or '68. He was considered one of the "Orange Country three" along with Tim Buckley and Jackson Browne. The stuff on the album is probably a little closer in style to the early Browne songs (like the ones Nico and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band did) than to Buckley.

hmm never heard noonan, sounds intriguing though.
how about this one (back on the byrds related tip)
http://rpmedia.ask.com/ts?u=/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/TerryMelcher.jpg/220px-TerryMelcher.jpg

melcher solo album gets some mojo love and the like. terry is one of my heroes in life.

terry album and the boettcher solo album and john philips solo and dennis wilson album all in the same leaky boat. and the don agrati album.

don agrati ... you've stumped me.

he was on my three sons. made 60's sunshine pop records and made an early 70's brianwilson-esque album.

Clifford T. Ward. As an introverted, anglophile teen I loved him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJazTKgm_s8&feature=related

the Gosdin Brothers' album (Sounds of Goodbye) seems to get lots of love, but this traditional bluegrass album (recorded 1963-4, released 1969) is fairly overlooked given the names involved. it's reminiscent of the Dillards' early work, only with less focus on hot picking and more on mild, pretty vocal harmonies:

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/2500/18119.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH2oze9Bfs4

their third reunion album, released in 1966. the performances and material are easily equal to the records that made them famous in the '30s and '40s, but this doesn't seem to get that much attention:

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/2785/bsbcapitol.jpg

Also Pete Dello from Honeybus and Pete Dello and Friends, or maybe he does get more attention? Has anyone heard Honeybus' 'Recital' from 73?

That Midlake guy has been repping for Jimmie Spheeris something fierce.

People who remember Andy Kim at all know him for a couple of mediocre '70s hits. He had a string of bubblegum hits in 1968 that I still love:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I39YrqDogMc

http://i51.tinypic.com/aw2irp.jpg

I've never heard a whole album by Henson "Skip a Rope" Cargill, but the Omni Group put out a good compilation a few years ago. I unabashedly love his fuzzy, organ-drenched country-rock anti-conformity anthem "Reprints (Plastic People)" which appears on the album pictured above. the lyrics alone make it one of the unlikeliest things to come out of Nashville:

It's dawn
and the sun is rising over modern cities
baptist steeple
it's dawn
representing another routine day for modern cities
plastic people

all on the same road the same hour of the day
all tote the same road and head the same way
all wear the same suit and sing the same song
hear the merry piper's flute leading them along

carbon copies of uniformity
reprints, reprints are all I see
all from one line of assembly
plastic people surrounding me

It's night
and the moon is floating just above modern cities
bapist steeple
it's night
at 12:00 each dollhouse will go dark for modern cities' plastic people

at the stroke of midnight when they're all alone
they'll wonder if they've been right to think all on their own
all fear the same thing, mustn't go too far
yet all have same dream of changing what they are

also search "What's My Name", a Luke The Drifter-esque spoken word piece that might be the only song to namecheck both James Brown and Adolf Eichmann.

i dig jimmie. me and jaxon the only fans on here? probably pete 69 too. i can't GIVE jimmie spheeris records away at my store. guess cuz nobody has heard of him/them? i dunno. i tell people that they are good. and i sell them for practically nothing.

i should listen to that clifford ward album again. i know i have it somewhere.

the album with skip a rope on it is really good!

i can't GIVE jimmie spheeris records away at my store. guess cuz nobody has heard of him/them? i dunno. i tell people that they are good. and i sell them for practically nothing.

I guess Midlake duder's plugging isn't working.

best andy kim album BY FAR:

http://www.bsnpubs.com/dot/steed/steed37002.jpg

soooooo cool! if you ever see it buy it. first steed album is pretty cool too but rainbow ride is a fuzzpop feast.

Can we talk about these obscure 70s singer-songwriters featured in the newest Record Collector Magazine (and others if you wish)

The trilogy: "How'd We Ever Get This Way?," "Shoot 'Em Up Baby," and "Rainbow Ride." Almost as good as Bringing It All Back Home/Highway 61/BOB.

'Resurrection' the last song on 'How'd We Ever Get This Way' is really beautiful, unlike any of the others songs from the record.

mebbe Hoyt Axton

I dunno, sure thought that several that have been mentioned get plenty of hipster kisses (Jesse Winchester, Jesse Colin Young, Tim Hardin, Jake Holmes, Tom Rush, maybe a few others). If not, they deserve them. Especially Tim and Jake.

yeah with those early elton records, it's nice to imagine that you're listening to some random 70s singer-songwriter rather than the circle of life guy.

S. Seward, all those John Hartford albums but not Earthwords & Music???

I used to love Alone Together too - isn't that the one where you have to be careful cuz the record falls out the bottom? It's Like You Never Left is almost as good.

I'll nominate Richie Furay. Not familiar with his later solo albums, but he wrote some *great* songs for Buffalo Springfield and the early Poco albums that seem to have been largely ignored.

when is someone going to come in here and start repping hardcore for early billy joel? 3 ... 2 ... 1?

Shit, I'll rep for Billy Joel. And Neil Diamond. And fuckin, I dunno, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap.

I'd rather hear hipster douchebands ripping off The Nylon Curtain than fucking Graceland. That's indefensible.

How about Johnny Rivers? Trini Lopez? Tommy James and the Shondells, Flo & Eddie, JD Loudermilk, Keith West, Richie Havens? I don't actually know who does or doesn't get hipster kisses. Justin Heathcliff? Kan Mikami?

Neil Diamond's early stuff excellent, before he became a schlocky showman.

I thought hipsters loved Billy Joel's work in Attila

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prFYOZIRcMM

I'm not a hipster or anything but I do enjoy that Hassles comp.

long overdue:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_d5hL26F0d5s/TTNTKUw7MpI/AAAAAAAAM8M/PqcM5aDDZt8/s1600/NedDoheny1973.jpeg

Yeah the first Ned Doheny record needs as much love as hip one!!

CHRIS fuckin DARROW.
His s/t album on UA and his LP "Artist Proof" on Fantasy are full of great stuff. He was also involved in the Maxfield Parrish LP, along with Leadon..

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6228/41f3hyj623l.jpg

Pre-beard Waylon Jennings. (Hipsters love 70s "outlaw" stuff, but not the truly great 60s stuff.)

http://991.com/newGallery/Freddy-Fender-Before-The-Next-T-447745.jpg

christ that terry allen album cover is badazz

the freddy fender story was featured quite a lot during a Latin Music USA tv docu on BBC4 (now iplayer).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00qpm4c/Latin_Music_USA_Borderlands/

that Freddy Fender album is wonderful, Tex-Mex honky-tonk

i will also vouch for Ned Doheny's S/T tho his later stuff isn't as sweet. same w/Dave Mason. Alone Together is classic 1970 rock, really love that album but the guy totally wimped out as the decade progressed.

"i dig jimmie. me and jaxon the only fans on here?"

I love him too - and Cyrus Faryar too. Islands is such a great album.

"S. Seward, all those John Hartford albums but not Earthwords & Music???"

i haven't heard it! i haven't actually heard every record. i only hear stuff when i come across it in real life for the most part. sometimes it can take years. just heard vibracathedral orchestra for the first time last week cuz someone brought one of their records into the store. pretty good!

anyway, i know some people have a hard time with the word hipster. its half tongue in cheek. but the idea is kinda simple. tim buckley and leonard cohen exist in a world of critical esteem and have some sort of cool cachet that al stewart doesn't have. but there are still positive things to say about al stewart and his records are very easily found for peanuts. and the purpose of the other thread for the ladies was to give credit to people who are easily found in dollar bins or their records are five dollars or less and they are everywhere but they don't get the kind of critical re-appraisal or excitement that other people get. there is sandy denny and linda perhacs on the one hand, and there is karla bonoff and rita coolidge on the other hand. granted, sandy was a genius and linda made a very singular and beautiful artistic statement that has survived obscurity, but we have all read plenty of ink and raving about their stuff and probably don't read comprehensive overviews of cris williamson's career that often. but then that thread got into more obscure territory and that was fine and its fine here too. i just like reading what people have to say about stuff like this.

freddy fender an excellent example, by the way! his records are everywhere and hardly anyone buys them and there is great stuff to be found on them. who wants to say nice things about ronnie milsap?

Great thread Scott - so much good stuff.

"She plays a pure white slave"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO_l81MljWI